The 2025 forecast for upriver spring Chinook is 122,500 fish, which is more than the 116,332 that returned to the Columbia River in 2024, but lower than the 10-year average of 139,676.

A juvenile chinook salmon was caught in the Kettle River in British Columbia earlier this month, marking the first time since reintroduction efforts began that the species was found in the stream. The ...

The Columbia River will remain open to chinook salmon retention through the end of the year up to the U.S. 395 bridge in Pasco, Washington. Oregon and Washington fish managers met Thursday ...

Starting Wednesday, the catch limit for spring chinook salmon will increase to two adult fish per day for Columbia River anglers fishing from the estuary to a point 300 miles ...

Novella Klein of Hood River celebrates her first-ever salmon, a fall chinook caught in the Columbia River near White Salmon, Washington. Bill Monroe for The Oregonian/OregonLive ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Fishery managers from Oregon and Washington set spring Chinook salmon seasons for the Columbia River Wednesdasy during a joint state hearing in Vancouver.

After clearing the nests of silt, they injected 300,000 spring-run Chinook salmon eggs up to 1.5 feet deep—an action designed to mimic the spawning behaviors of real adult salmon.